Albanese Is Facilitating Trump’s Brazen Contraventions of International Law
With the 3 January 2026 kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, the US Trump administration signalled the death knell of the edifice of international law established since World War II. And it must be understood that whilst...
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Death in Custody Protesters Vow to Take to the Streets on Invasion Day
A First Nations deaths in custody protest took place on Gadigal land in Sydney’s Hyde Park on 18 January 2026. The rally marked 10 years since the funeral of Dunghutti man David Dungay Junior. Yet, whilst calling for a new...
Stamping Out Hate with Draconian Laws Is a Rush to the Bottom in Terms of Rights
When it came time for the Australian home affairs minister to address the press in relation to the omnibus combating antisemitism bill, Tony Burke pointed to a number of key aspects of the legislation. These involve the listing of hate...
Federal Government’s Antisemitism Hate Bill Threatens to Further Erode Civil Liberties
Federal parliament is convening for special sitting days on 19 and 20 January 2026, with the aim of passing new hate crime laws and gun measures contained in an omnibus bill, which taken together with a swag of other post-Bondi...
Inmate Appeals Refusal to Release Him via Writ of Habeas Corpus
Elefterios “Terry” Fantakis is set to appeal the 2 September 2025 decision of then NSW Chief Judge at Common Law Ian Harrison to deny a writ of habeas corpus directing the Macquarie Correctional Centre governor to bring Fantakis before the...
The Hasbara Royal Commission and the Erasure of Palestinian Australians
The establishment of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion is likely the most significant threat to forging truth in this nation, with the last hope to resist this onslaught of hasbara being a respected former High Court Justice,...
The Offence of Engaging in Acts of Child Prostitution in New South Wales
Most people in New South Wales would recognise Jeffrey Epstein and associate the deceased United States citizen with being a child sex offender, involved in a smorgasbord of criminal offences. Yet, the multimillionaire financier was only ever convicted on two...
NSW Police Fatally Shoot Yet Another Civilian During a Mental Health Callout
New South Wales police shot and killed a 49-year-old man on Darkinjung land in the state’s Central Coast town of Springfield at 3.30 pm on Wednesday, 7 January 2026, after a mental health check turned into a siege situation. This...
Legal Challenge Launched Against Draconian Blanket Ban on Protests
On the day following New South Wales police commissioner Mal Lanyon having extended the first ever blanket ban on so-called authorised protests in parts of Greater Sydney, three local social justice organisations lodged a legal challenge to the protest prohibition...
NSW Government’s Proposal to Criminalise the Public Display of Political Slogans Is Concerning
A New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into prohibiting slogans that incite hatred is accepting public submissions until Monday, 12 January 2026. This inquiry is further continuing the Minns government’s yearlong addiction to kneejerk legislating primarily to respond to pro-Palestine/anti-Gaza genocide...
